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Tay"LLLL"or "LLLL"ewan (douchebag)

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Tanner said:
I've never been one of those people that thinks we get picked on in terms of national coverage. For one, I think ESPN is an internet troll writ large, and you should never take them seriously. For another, it's not like USC hasn't been getting hammered pretty hard in the media the last couple years after their scandal. And in 3 years, when Nick Saban "retires" amid a storm of potential NCAA violations, I'm sure Alabama will be hit pretty hard, too. That's what happens when you're a heavyweight and you drive the media needle.

But I am pretty alarmed at the relative lack of coverage of this thing. This is an actual thing. It's not NCAA benefit nonsense. A young woman was clearly wronged (I guess it's debatable to what degree she was wronged, but still, wronged, by multiple people on the football team.) And it doesn't seem debatable that the response by the football team and the university was and is completely unacceptable. This should be a bigger deal than it is.
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For the record, I think the B10 as a whole gets picked on by certain TV stations with a financial investment in our competitors. It was seen before the CCG in Indy where ESPiN had an article along the lines of "weak MSU and over-rated OSU show soft undersides". To say nothing of some of the ridiculous arguments for putting anyone they could think of above us in the rankings.

That said, the media will always give a free pass to this kind of stuff when it's from certain Universities. Ones like Notre Dame or so-called "Harvard of the West". They have a certain reputation and the connections that allow them to get away with murder. If Clarett happened at Notre Dame it would've been swept under the carpet... no doubt about that. If Clarrett happened at Rutgers, Tennessee, California, Colorado... it would've been treated the same as it was here (by the national press).
 
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OSU_D/ said:
Pizza boy didn't let the M!ch!gan student newspaper attend the press conference today. A little payback for the Michigan Daily having exposed the Gibbon mess. Would you expect anything less from the outfit that let Felony Clark play all but one game?
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How can one prevent the student news paper from attending a _press_ conference? In all seriousness I ask that.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
How can one prevent the student news paper from attending a _press_ conference? In all seriousness I ask that.
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The same way he told the stadium and neighboring UM stores not to sell John Bacon's book about RR after being given a free pass by the UM athletic department. Of course they told him no and sold it anyway
 
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OSU_D/ said:
Pizza boy didn't let the M!ch!gan student newspaper attend the press conference today. A little payback for the Michigan Daily having exposed the Gibbon mess. Would you expect anything less from the outfit that let Felony Clark play all but one game?
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Which gets back to ace's point in December about many outlets knowing about the scandal but afraid to report it.
 
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jwinslow said:
The same way he told the stadium and neighboring UM stores not to sell John Bacon's book about RR after being given a free pass by the UM athletic department. Of course they told him no and sold it anyway
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That's the kind of thing that I would expect a student news paper to be all over like stink on shit. Wrap yourself in all a copy of the first amendment and a flag and make so much noise that the university wished they could send Taylor Lewan to threaten you.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
That's the kind of thing that I would expect a student news paper to be all over like stink on [Mark May]. Wrap yourself in all a copy of the first amendment and a flag and make so much noise that the university wished they could send Taylor Lewan to threaten you.
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At any normal University, probably the case.
At a University where everyone thinks they're Aristocrats... perhaps not. I imagine Michigan Men are supposed to fall on their swords or something.
 
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